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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
A CLEAN OF PLEASURE.

Where the mill-stream spreads and shadows,
And its waters dip and toss
With n rush of sudden freedom
Round the boulders and the moss,
With the fragrant wildwood blossoms
Clinging close about her feet,
Came a simple country maiden
Like a vision strange and sweet;
In her eye mellow twinkle,
In her face n rosy beam,
As she slyly glanced and uttered
"Please, sir, help me cross the stream! I!
There was fondness in her features,
In her step lithesome air,
And a careless touch of beauty
In the braid Of hazel hair.
How watched her artless motion
As she went from me that day;
Like sunbeam through forest
Calm she passed along her way;
And thought, with half a longing,
Life would be a sylvan dream
Could | share it with the maiden
Whom | helped across the stream.
She has gone, but oft in slumber
Can | sec her pass my eyes,
Like fair and faultless truant
Who has strayed from Paradise;
And hope where'er she wanders,
Through the sad and happy years,
That the halo of her laughter
Form rainbow in her tears.
That some kind and potent spirit,
When her breast with troubles TEEN,
Guide her DER the wave of sorrow,
As helped her cross the stream.
Sydney Wddmdn, in Boston Trdnscyipt
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

Atpresent, there are only 332 miles of
railway open to traffic in Japan, but 357
miles are in course of construction, and
145 miles, projected, have entered a
practical stage. There are different
styles of roads, some being on the Ameri-
can and German principles, but the ma
jority are on the English system. The
sngincs, with the exception of few
American, are all English, in addition to
the wheels and axles of carriages. A
great deal of the woodwork is being con-
structed in Japan.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

The lepers of Molokai, says corre-
spondent of the Springfield Republican,
are permitted to marry and propagate,
and large number of children are born
of them. 1t must be said, however, that
the children of leprous parents are not
necessarily themselves leprous. The
chances are that they will be so@odflier
or later, but cases are not infreqnent
where five or six children have been
born in families where both parents were
leprous and yet never developed the dis
ease themselves. Other instances are
shown where two OF three children
would be born without taint, then lep-
rous one would appear, after which Others
would show no contamination. 1t often
happens, too, that one member of mar
red couple will be leprous and the other
not infected Nor do the natives have
any fear of their afflicted friend, but live
in the sa me house, sleep in the same
bed, have their clothes washed in the
same water and are always free from lep-
rosy themselves. The disease does not
seem to be contagious, at least in the or
dinary acceptation cf the word, and Wis
itors need have no fear of it, but it is
certainly communicable by means whose
very obscurity make them terrible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
Chinese Charity.

Nor do we heather believe in the ma
chine way of doing good, says Wong
Chin Foo in the North 1mericda Rerieic
If we find man starving in the streets
we do not wait till we find the overseer
of the poor, nor for the unwinding of
other civilized red tape before relieving
a mans hunger If heather sees man
fall from a tree top and seriously injure
himself, he does not first run TO the hos
pital for an ambulance. nor does the am
bulance man first want TO know what
precinct the injured man belongs to; but
forthwith he is cared for and taken to the
nearest shelter for other needed treat
ment, and when the danger is over the
red tape may come in-the Christian ma
chinery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
A Drunken Rooster.

One morning recently Mrs. Peter
Boudreau, of Saulmierville, went to the
barn as usual and got mess of oats,
which she gave to her fowls. Later in
the forenoon she noticed very strange
action among them and that the rooster
was stretched on the ground, apparently
dead. Mrs. Boudreau, to make the best
of it, plucked him clean, with the eXcepS
tion of few tail and wing feathers, and
consigned him to the refuse heap feeling
convinced that he had been poisoned.
Toward noon, to the great surprise of the
whole family, he was up again, strutting
about as gay as ever, though deprived of
his costly and necessary apparel. But
our good lady, being equal to the occas-
ion, took him in the house and fitted him
with fine suit of overalls, and at last
accounts he was doing as well as could
be expected under the distressing circum-
stances. Mrs. Boudreau, determined to
find out the cause of this strange phe-
nomenon, went to her oat barrel and
found that bottle of liquor had been
placed in the barrel and the liquor had
leaked out in the grain, which explained
the whole mystery. The rooster was
drunk. .-MORtredL Witness.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
Insuring the Babies.

Do you know how many babies-l
mean by that word children over one
year and under twelve-are insured in
this countryi There are 800, 900 such
little ones whose lives are insured for sums
sufficient in most cases merely to bury
them. -Four companies carry on this sort
of business in this city alone, and thrive
upon it, too. BY the terms of these
companies a child cannot be insured until
il is one year old, and the premium in
every case is five cents a week. Those
over seven have the privilege of paying
ten cents week and doubling the
amount of their policy. If death claims
the child within one year the holder of
the policy receives S14, and the payments
are graded after that until in the case of
a child dying in the twelfth year Sl23 is
paid. Such a system as this should be OF
Il. much benefit 10 poor parents rs it evil
IDENTIFY is TO the companies. -Ne'0 Royk
Letter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

Some singular statements have been
made in a German paper concerning the
effect produced by different trades and
industrial occupations upon the general
health. Among these facts are those
contributed by Prof. Hesse, of Leipsic,
who points out the deplorable condition
of the teeth of bakers, and who also as
serts that he is frequently able to Indicate
the occupation of persons by the con-
dition of their teeth. In the case of
bakers the carries is soft and rapidly pro-
gressive; the principal parts attacked are
the labial and buccal surfaces of the teeth
commencing at the cervix and rapidly ex-
tending to the grinding surface-the
approximal surfaces not seeming to be at
tackled more than in other trades. Prof.
Hesse believes that the disease is owing
to the inhalation of flour dust, the carries
beiRG- caused by the action of an acid
whitA formed in the presence of fer.
mentable carbohydrates.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Can a dentist properly be called a
a root-dOctor'
Not a popular watering place for
tramps-the bathroom.-HoteJ Mat
A pumped-out petroleum well, like a
man driven out of his native country, IS
an exile.
The dollar was invented in 1895. I'm
Gle Sam has kept renewing the patent, so
they come just as high as ever.-Dans-
UHle Breeze
Why can't the duelists of to-day be
fair and square about it and designate as
weapons "Chins, at two lesW-NdSl-
CHe american.
"Two knots an hour isn't such bad
time for Clergyman" smilingly said
the minister to himself, just after he had
united the second couple.-Merehaat
Trareler.
The King of Spain, now seventeen
months old, commands a salary oil
1000, 600 a year, and yet there are times
when he would give it all for one bottle
of paregoric.- Boston Globe.
An agricultural writer says: "Women
have handled chickens and bees with
DrOilt. ms may DC SVOu N"y "a
handling chickens, but bees should be
handled with gloves.-Ne'O Haze" Ne''s.
Everything am / owe to my Wife"
said pompous man in the course Ct his
lecture. "Wel, you're doing thunder
ing poor business in your wife's name,
sang out bootblack from the gallery
Nepman Independent.
1t is said that Judge in Dakota re-
Gently ordered three men out of the court
room because they were coatless. THIS
| is the almost universal custom OF the
courts everywhere. When the court
finds that man cannot maintain his suit,
he is told to go.-BoSton Herald.
The man who to the barber goes
And gets shaven crown,
Emerges from the chair with glee,
The happiest man in town.
But ere day has passed away
With fearful oaths and cries
He'll curse the hour he made his head
A battle-ground for the flies.
-CharleStOiOn Enterprise,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

Basis, commercial year $50 days, or
thirty days per month.
per cent. Multiply the principal by
the required number of days, divide by
and point off.
per cent.-Multiply by the number
of days and divide by 72.
per cent. Multiply by the number
of days, divide by 8, and point off three
figures from the right
Sper cent-Multiply by the number
of days and divide 10y 4j.
per cent, Multiply by the number
of days. divide by 4, and point of three
figures from the right.
10 per cent Multiply by the number
of days and divide by 36.
IL per cent Multiply by the number
of days, divide by 3, aud point oil three
figures from the right
15per cent nt-Multiply by the number of
days and divide by "a.
is per cent. Multiply by the number
of days, divide by 2, and point of three
figures from the right.
20 per Multiply by the number
of days and divide by 1S.
The interest in each case will be in
dollars and cents. -J JsefiI Information.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

Few persons are aware how equable is
the climate of British Columbia in the
ncighborhood of Vancouver, or how high
is the temperature relative to the lati-
tude. 1t seems that in some years the
gooseberry buds open in February, that
at the beginning of March native hemp
is three inches high, and by May po-
tatoes are above ground. Meteorological
observations made in 1860 every day
throughout the year gave the following
astonishing results: The mean heat of
the whole year was about 80 degrees.
In January, the coldest month, it was IS
degrees, and in August, the hottest
month, it was 03 degrees.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

The gold held by the Treasury in its
vaults at Washington weighs 519 tons.
If packed into ordinary carts, one ton to
each cart, it would make procession two
miles long, allowing twenty feet of space
for the movement of each horse and cart.
The silver in the same vaults weighs Z, =
800 tons. Measuring it in CARTS as in the
case of the gold, it would require the SER
Vices of z, ,306 horses and carts to trans
port it, and would make procession
over twenty-one miles in length.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Tohst Recipes.


Buttered Toast Toast stale bread to a
delicate brown, dip in boiling water con-
tanning little salt, spread with butter,
and set in the oven.
Milk Toast Slice stale bread thin,
toast to q delicate brown; lay in a dish;
melt pound of butter in a pint of ne1
milk and pour over the toast.
Ham Toast Mince some boiled ham
very fine, stir in a pint Of cream, with
pepper, mustard, butter and two eggs;
boil and pour over nicely Drowned toast.
Set in the oven to dry.
French Toast: Beat three eggs, add
pint of sweet milk and a pinch of salt.
Cut in slices an inch thick loaf of stale
bread, dip in the egg, fry in hot butter,
sprinkle with sugar and grated nutmeg.
Tomato Toast: Run quart of toma-
toes through the colander, put in a stew
pan, season with butter, pepper and salt.
Cut slices of bread; toast, butter, and lay
on hot dish, and pour the tomatoes on
the toast.
Sardine. Toast. Place with some oil
out of the box in covered jar dozen
sardines: when we'll heated lay on well
pepper over them and squeeze few drops
of lemon juice over. Eat hot.
Apple Toast: From slices of dry
bread cut round cakes, spread with but
ter, then cover with slices of tart ripe
apples, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon
and bits of butter. Serve hot with cream
sweetened and favored with nutmeg.
Oyster Toast Boil one cup of oyster
liquor with half cup of cream, table
spoon of butter, pepper and salt; pour
| over some nicely toasted bread, and set
in the oven five minutes; then lay broiled
| oysters on the slices of toast and serve
! hot.
German Toast: Cut in thin slices a
loaf of bread, soak half an hour in sweet
milk, take out the bread, beat two eggs,
a small spoonful of butter, tablespoon
full of corn starch in milk, dip the slices
of bread in and fry brown; sprinkle with
sugar and cinnamon.
Bombay Toast: Take one ounce OF
anchovies, wash, bone and pound them
in a mortar with one ounce of fresh but
ter till reduced to a paste; melt in a
saucepan; add the beaten yolk of two
eggs and pepper and salt to taste, and
spread the mixture on some slices OF
nicely toasted bread. Serve very hot.
Cream Toast: Toast slices of thir
bread, lay in covered dish and pou
boiling water over them; pour the water
off and let drain Put one pint of rich
sweet cream on the stove in quart cup
and three tablespoonfuls of butter, two
beaten eggs and tablespoon of corr
starch; let boil and pour over the toast
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

The public debt reached its highest
point in August, 1865, twenty-five years
ago, when it was So, 3st, $50, ,205. 1t is
now, not including the Pacific railroad
bonds, 81, OOt, 976, $50. In other words,
more than one-half of the debt has been
paid within that period. 1t has been re-
duced at the average rate of 500, 7OG, 075
each year, S., 925, 5s1 each month, $174,
1856 each day, 81, 25s each hour, and
$12O.47 for every minute of the entire
twenty-five years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
THE BELL OF JUSTICE.
Once on a time an upright king

Once on time an upright king
Hung in the market place bell
Which all who were oppressed might ring,
And thus their wrongs and sorrows tell;
Receive the justice which they needed,
And all the rights the law conceded.
Now when, with constant calls and time,
The rope had nearly worn away,
They tied the tendril of vine
To stop the progress Of decay,
And give to all who might require
That Justice which should ne'er expire.
One day a poor old wretched horse,
Deserted in declining age,
Had munched and pulled the hanging vine,
Attempting hunger to assuage;
And ringing thus the justice bell,
Proclaimed the wrongs he could not tell.
Before the king the courtiers brought
The hungry and neglected steed.
He ruled his owner should be sought
And forced to keep him in his need
Thus justice should protect the least,
And reign alike DER man and beast
-. S. Henderson,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

OF the 400, 1855 acres of land available
for oyster growing but 10, $50 acres con-
tain oysters of natural growth in sufii
cient quantities to pay for the cost of
gathering them. The natural growth
beds of Rhode Island and Connecticut
are practically extinct, and even the
great beds of Maryland and Virginia are
being rapidly exhausted. Indeed the
natural growth beds north of the
Chesapeake are generally practically
worthless, save as nurseries for seed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
Pacific Coast Fortunes.

BalZac reveled in millions as a miser
gloats over his golden hoard, and he en-
dowed many of his characters with the
generous hand of the novelist; but he
dealt in francs, not dollars, and the
Bourse spectators and the great financial
schemes that he loved to describe pale in
TO insigniticance before the fortunes and
business operations of the half-dozen
men of the Pacific coast, who in mining
and .ailroads, have made fortunes that
would have been called royal even in the
Gays of Cgser and imperial Rome Cos
mopolitaa.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

John Grelish, of Toronto, who was
sentenced to twenty-five lashes on the
bare back and received them, says he
would rather take three years imprison-
ment than another such beating. lie
thought he could repress even sigh, but
at the third stroke he yelled for mercy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
How Donald Fixed the GeOlogist.

There are losses which people suffer
unconsciously like that sustained the
other day by one of the advance guard
of the English army invading, or about
to invade, Scotland. This tourist was of
geological turn, and he hired a native
gillie to carry his bag of specimens
across the mountain. at was heavy
load, and nothing but stones" said
Donald, relating his experiences TO
friend, ''and | was not fool enough to
drag the pebbles guild ten miles.
just emptied the bag before started, and
filled it at the cairn last came to, and
the gentleman was just as much pleased
-GlaSg0l6 RsYGld.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

The San francisco Alta boasts that the
voting citizens of that city come from
sixty different political divisions Of the
world, Egypt being about the only coun-
try not represented.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

The physicians of the Pennsylvania
Hospital make the remarkable assertion
that they have no record of colored
person suffering from sunstroke being adj
mitted TO that institution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

Stimulate those feelings in your own
behavior that you would inculeate in
others.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28
Terms. $3.50 pOr Year.

No subscriptions received for shorter period
than three months.
Correspondence solicited from all parts Of the
country. No notice will be taken Of anonymous
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

The spirit level was invented by DIR.
Hookei born 1860, died 1902.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-28

A few months later the morning
papers of the metropolis announced the
of Mr.. Vannest McFarlane to
Mrs. Hilary Lawton. .-Ne,o York Mercury.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-13
pules for Washing the Face.

That celebrated authority on skin diseases,
Sir Erasmus Wilson, gives the subjoined in
structions for washing the face, in his able
work, Healthy Skin," which are infinitely
superior to all the quack specifics SO widely
advertised. "Fill your basin about two
thirds full of fresh water, dip your face in
the water, and then your hands. Soap the
hands well, and pass them with gentle fric-
ton over the whole face. Then dip the face
in the water a second time and rinse it
thoroughly. A second basin ready with fresh
water is valuable addition. The wrong
ways are using the towel, sponge or flannel as
a means of conveying the soap to the face,
and emitting the rinsing at conclusion.
Then, as regards drying the face, moder-
ately thick and soft towel should be used: a
very rough one is not desirable, nor one of
thick texture"
A renowned vendor of skin cosmetics was
once asked by friend what was the best ap-
plication for identifying and preserving the
complexion. "Wash your face well every
night and morning in very hot water" was
the reply No better advice can be given,
as by this means we assist materially the
skins natural action, and obviate blockage
of its follicles Rain or distilled water,
owing to their purity and softness, are best
for washing the face.-London Dr,,n.atic
Review
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-13
A Housekeeper's Friend.

A LARGE wall bag to housekeeper is what
a desk full of pigeon holes is to business
man. 1t is large piece of strong gray drill
ing with a dozen more or less) pockets sewed
on, three rows of four pockets, or four rows
of three, according as you have long or
broad wall space on which to hang it. These
pockets are from six inches deep and five
broad to twelve by ten, according to the
slowing room you require; they are stitched
on, and on each is written in plain letters with
ink the contents; for instance, buttons, tapes.
ribbons, braids, curtain rings, ETC.; in short,
all the articles that may be too useful to throw
away, yet because they are not new or sell
dom used may not find a place in the work
basket. Ribbons little soaed, just the thing
to line or bind or strengthen some article;
tapes still strong or buttons from garment
old fashioned, but sure to come in again; odd
buttons, too, that only cucumber the regular
button box. All the odds and ends we may
think it duty to keep, if we have a thrifty
soul, yet which are nuisance if we con-
stantly come across them, may find appropri-
ate homes in these bags.-oatherine Owen in
Good Housekeeping.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-13
attracting much attention. she now mas q

attracting much attention. one no" las .
studio in New York.
Mrs. Sarah Ames, Of Massachusetts,, pat
ented the bust of Abraham Lincoln. OF what
the patent right consists does not clearly ap-
pear, as artists generally consider such things
creations rather than inventions. Mrs. Cor
nelia Beaumont, of Ohio, has patent life
boat to her credit. Mrs Martha j. Coston
has been very successful with her pyrotechnic
night signals. She is an example OF what
pluck and perseverance can do. At the death
of her husband his papers were in chaotic
condition and his designs not fully perfect.
Unaided she brought them to point where
they were practically valuable, and she re-
NAMED almost ten years introducing them in
the various foreign ports. She has been re-
warded for her perseverance by fortune.
Among the queer inventions is an instrument
for restoring facial symmetry by Miss Fanny
Batchelder, of Massachusetts. The numerous
patents granted to women include fire es-
capes, dust brushes, baby tenders, devices for
killing mosquitoes and other insects, window
washers, glove fasteners, food preservers,
cow mixers, dish washers, washing machines,
cooking stoves, corpse preservers, bustles,
face lotions and all kinds of garments.-A.
De Montaign in New York World.